[fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

[Steve Litt]

Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal said on Sat, 16 Nov 2024 06:28:38 -0500

> On Nov 16, 2024 at 3:13:26 PM, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal <
>fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>> If you know nothing about the language, the main page explains to you
>> quickly what's the point of the language, and gives you example
>> code, so you can immediately see how it looks like. There are
>> relatively large and easy to find buttons/links for:  
>
>
>Some here are not appreciating just how fickle people are these days.
>It’s not 1995 anymore and there are literally dozens of languages you
>can choose from so if it’s not clear what language looks like within
>30 seconds browsing a web page people will click away and go to the
>next one.
>
>I saw this video recently (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFFcCLzOOyw)
>where this person goes over a list of languages he considered before
>choosing Odin for his projects (Free Pascal not included sadly).
>Notice the web pages and resources he reviewed in his process. The FPC
>web page doesn’t even have anything to view in terms of code snippets.
>People are going to click away for sure.

Thanks Ryan,

What you say makes a lot of sense, and not just for computer language
websites.

SteveT

Steve Litt 

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